Bratislava, 5 September 2018. Infrastructure development plans for the Carpathian countries aim to cover the region with a dense web of roads and railways. But the natural richness of the area may get ...

A haystack on the Carpathian mountainside. All photos by Tom Hansell. I hiked up the gravel lane, following the ridgeline to a farmhouse at the top of the hill. My traveling companions were already in ...

A report released by WWF, ahead of this week’s pan-European environment conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, finds that the Carpathians could be the continent’s last refuge for the brown bear, wolf and lynx.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Greenpeace activists on Wednesday called on the Polish prime minister to take action to protect Poland’s forests, asking the government to limit the harvesting of timber in the ...

Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western ...

Europe's largest beast is to roam the forests of Romania after 200 years. Adam Vaughan witnesses the buzz as a herd of 17 is released in the Carpathian mountains The crowd surges forward against the ...

Mountaineer Jozef Truban biked and walked 3100km across the Carpathian Mountains – alone and without a tent. Jozef Truban never planned to make a complete traverse of one of Europe’s largest mountain ...

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